Re: [Enigma-devel] Boogies found in Enigma 1.10 revision 1244

[Ronald Lamprecht]

Hi,

I added the author of Enigmines who posted the level on this list.

Andreas Lochmann wrote:
> Alexandros Tasos schrieb:
> > Here are some levels that do not work properly with enigma 1.10:
> >    2. In level Enigma VIII - #7 - Enigmines, after rolling on all squares
> >    and hitting the switch on the right room, after 10 seconds, Enigma 
> > stops
> >    responding.

In a few words: it is the level's Lua code that ends in an infinite loop 
(repeat ... until ). The engine currently trust levels to return 
execution sooner or later and does not have a watchthread to kill run 
away levels. :-(

> This one is new - I was able to repeat the bug
> using god-mode.
>
> Explanation: Variable "score" counts the number of
> yet uncovered free tiles, down to zero. On zero, the
> oxyd stones are created. The hint-mechanism uses the
> score to check whether there are still unopened free
> tiles, before choosing one of them.
>
> However, after stepping on a mine, you can still
> uncover free tiles (removing its trigger this way),
> but the score isn't updated anymore (to prevent oxyd
> creation). You see this on the bars on the left and
> right side.
>
> The hint mechanism now thinks "Oh, there're still
> some free tiles!", chooses one per random, tries
> to access the trigger on the tile - and accesses
> nil, as the trigger has been removed long ago.
>
> Okay, if noone else volunteers, I will fix this.
>
> Alexandros, thanks for testing :-)

Greets,

Ronald